Stefen

Founder, The Oasis Group & @oasisonchain - Frontier Tech for the Caribbean 🌴
Building harnesses for legal and regulatory

[Stefen @stefdelev]

super thankful. this was really a great weekend full of incredible connections, conversations, and irl onboarding

given the focus on the global South, we ofc spent a lot of time covering payments and stablecoins, but also showed how important dePin will be to these regions

[Oasis Onchain 🏝️ @oasisonchain]

Massive shoutout to our major partners @BuildOnStellar, @sanddollar_BS, and @crypto_isle, and huge thanks to everyone who participated including @parabltech, @vifi_labs @KuraPayments and @poapxyz, who we used to onboard a cohort of local trade school students!

[Stefen @stefdelev]

@OnChainDen Excellent work!

[Den ❤️‍🔥 @OnChainDen]

Last month, Binance lost $6.4B in about 20 minutes. Before that, eight major attacks took $2.3B from crypto teams.

Today we're putting an end to it.

Introducing MLS Wallet by Den: North Korea's biggest nightmare.

[Stefen @stefdelev]

@seyitaylor yes!

[Hendrix Cool @theghostofsf]

Was literally explaining the, "society falls when old men don't plant trees they will never sit under" to my neighbor (boomer)

He said he didn't get it and why would he plant trees if won't be around to see them

[Stefen @stefdelev]

@jeremiahjw The whole time I thought it was him!

[Stefen @stefdelev]

@JennSanasie @CoinDesk You've done such a great job Jenn, congrats and excited for what's next!

[Michael J. Miraflor @michaelmiraflor]

MTS hiring @being_on_line was a coup. Very watchable, properly platformed, and credible tech x culture content to cut through the tweetslop timeline, and it's only been a few days.

[Stefen @stefdelev]

@CloutedMind @Fiskantes @goodalexander "set china back" lolwut

[Stefen @stefdelev]

@LindsayPoss Love you Linds ❤️

[Stefen @stefdelev]

"Here's what it taught me about B2B sales"

[tyro @DoubleEph]

You have to email the Houthis if you want your ship to cross the Red Sea. They reply within 24hrs

[Somewhere @somewheresy]

someday I dream of Prime Intellect and Nous Research assembling together like Goku and Vegeta doing fusion

[Stefen @stefdelev]

@somewheresy same, same

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Americans don't use WhatsApp because of a decision Apple made in 2013. We only know about it because the emails came out in court, and the whole thing came down to keeping your kids off Android.

It started with Eddy Cue, the guy who runs Apple's services. That April he emailed the team saying Apple really needed to put iMessage on Android. Google was reportedly trying to buy WhatsApp for $1 billion at the time, and Cue's pitch was that Apple already had the best messaging app, so why not make it the one the whole world used.

Craig Federighi, Apple's software chief, shut it down.

He asked how Apple was supposed to get Android users to leave WhatsApp when they didn't even have iPhone friends. So back in 2013, the guy running iPhone software was basically admitting WhatsApp already owned everybody who didn't have an iPhone. Then he got to what he was actually worried about. iMessage on Android would remove "an obstacle to iPhone families giving their kids Android phones."

Phil Schiller, Apple's longtime marketing boss, backed him up in another email thread in 2016, writing that putting iMessage on Android would hurt Apple more than help it. None of this was public until Epic sued Apple and the emails got pulled into evidence in 2021.

Now look at what that does to WhatsApp. The entire reason WhatsApp exists is that it works on any phone, so it wins wherever group chats are a mix of iPhones and Androids. Apple went the other direction on purpose. For years, every Android user in an American group chat showed up as a green bubble and their videos came through blurry, and the fix everybody landed on was buying another iPhone.

Tim Cook pretty much said this out loud in 2022. A reporter at a conference told him he couldn't send videos to his mom because she had an Android, and Cook told him to buy his mom an iPhone.

And it worked about as well as anything Apple has ever done. Nearly 9 in 10 American teenagers own an iPhone, and iPhones were 75% of phones sold at the big three US carriers in early 2026. If almost everyone you text has the same phone, an app whose whole selling point is working across phones has nothing to offer you.

Worldwide, Apple only sells about 1 in 5 phones. Most of the world's group chats stayed mixed, so they ended up on the one app that ran on everything, and WhatsApp blew past 3 billion users. Meta says more than 100 million Americans use it now too.

Apple finally added RCS texting with Android in 2024 and turned on encryption for it this May, and they still kept those messages green.

Apple basically let WhatsApp have the rest of the planet so it could keep American teenagers.

[Stefen @stefdelev]

@cryptovcdylan Just a little, as a treat

[Stefen @stefdelev]

@deepfates @TheStalwart every single time

[Stefen @stefdelev]

@abbaskhan All day

[Stefen @stefdelev]

@Bonecondor Shelob posting

(also outfit is fire)

[Stefen @stefdelev]

If you're Anakin-posting, pivot to Obi Wan-posting

[Stefen @stefdelev]

everyone is cooking today

TL is incredible 🫡

[Stefen @stefdelev]

@camiinthisthang Let's gooooo congrats!